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Keto Cheese Bread – Focaccio di Recco Recipe

This keto cheese bread recipe – Focaccio di Recco – is hot, crispy, gooey, and a seriously indulgent treat. You'll feel like you are cheating, but you aren't! It's a keto, low-carb, grain-free, gluten-free appetizer made to share.

Crispy, Hot, Keto Cheese Bread

Is there anything better than this? Hot, crispy bread with salt on top and cheese oozing from inside. It's a food lovers's dream. And it's totally keto-friendly.

Just look at how gooey it is as you scoop it out of the pan! It's not exactly finger-food. You'll need a fork, it's just that cheesy.

What is Focaccio di Recco?

The literal Italian to English translation is “flat bread from Recco.” Recco is a town in Liguria, Italy.

Traditionally, it's a flatbread filled with crescenza (cream) cheese.

The Perfect Keto Italian Appetizer Idea

Typical American Italian foods are filled with carbs and sugar. It can be so tough to find keto-friendly options.

You don't have to give up Italian food when you are eating keto. All you have to do is make a few recipe tweaks. Replace all-purpose flour with a combination of almond flour, coconut flour, and xanthan gum (to hold it all together). Don't use any sugar.

How to Make the Best Keto Cheese Bread

It's so easy to make this crispy and cheesy snack. In fact, since it's a flatbread, you don't have to let it rise after adding the yeast. The entire recipe takes about half an hour to make from start to finish. And that includes baking time.

The trickiest part is the flatbread. We included some step-by-step pictures so you can see what yours should look like.

Keto bread dough will naturally be flakier. Since it doesn't have gluten from the all-purpose flour, it will fall apart easier. But that's perfect for this recipe because it lets all that cheesy-goodness ooze out!

Do you have to use both types of flour together?

Yes, this bread turns out the best when you use both coconut and almond flours with the xanthan gum and yeast. You might be able to get away with using just almond flour without the coconut flour, but it won't have the same texture. It will turn out a bit softer, not as crispy.

The Secret – Roll It Out Thin

As you can see, the entire process is super simple. As you are rolling out the bread dough, keep rolling. Make it as thin as the picture above. You'll just love how crispy and flaky it turns out if you make it this thin.

Now it is time to add the cheese! Add the cheese to just one half of the bread dough.

Types of Cheese You Can Use

We used a combination of fresh mozzarella balls and crumbled feta cheese. You want to make sure the cheese you use will melt perfectly and have a slightly sweet and deep flavor.

If you don't have fresh mozzarella, go to the store and buy it. There just isn't anything that tastes or melts like it. It's tough to find a substitution for it.

But, if you don't have feta cheese, you can substitute goat cheese crumbles or even ricotta cheese. Both are pretty similar in taste and texture.

If you can, use both of the cheeses together, without substitutions. They are a match made in heaven!

The Final Steps

Once the cheese is added, gently fold over the empty half of the bread dough and seal the edges, folding them down neatly (as pictured below).

Transfer the dough to a greased cast iron skillet, brush olive oil on top of the dough, sprinkle with coarse salt, and cut a few slits in the top.

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Brush olive oil on top of the dough, sprinkle with coarse salt, and cut a few slits in the top.

Bake at 500°F for about 16 minutes or until browned.

Eat alone or serve with marinara sauce (just make sure it has no added sugar – we like Rao's brand!)

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We are Karissa Long and Katie Austin and we transformed our lives and health with the ketogenic diet! Karissa is a Global Heath Coach and Ketogenic Expert, as well as a best-selling author. She has been living the Clean Keto Lifestyle and helping others live it too for almost a decade. Katie is an executive chef and recipe extraordinaire, who has taken her incredible skills in the kitchen and parlayed them into her passion for living a keto lifestyle. On our site, you will find many keto recipes, meal plans, and resources.